ImageMagick Tag plugin

Plugin details

This plugin provides an easy way to use ImageMagick commands to process images from a Rails template.

Websitehttp://vantulder.net/rails/magick/ Repositoryhttp://opensvn.csie.org/rails_imagemagick_tag/imagemagick_tag/ Author Gijs van Tulder Tags Images LicenseUnknown

Documentation

Install the plugin:
ruby script/plugin install http://opensvn.csie.org/rails_imagemagick_tag/imagemagick_tag/

The basic idea is this: you have a directory with images, and want to process them with ImageMagick (because you want to resize them, or crop them, or rotate them etc.). Suppose that you have an image gallery, with a controller Photo to display the images. The image files are stored in the directory '/var/lib/photos'. Now, if you want to generate and display thumbnails, you'd do this:

# in the controller
class Photo < ApplicationController
  imagemagick_for '/var/lib/photos'
end

# in the view
<%= imagemagick_tag 'first_photo.jpg', 'resize(100x100)' %>


Request the view, and ta-da: the image first_photo.jpg is displayed, and it is resized to fit within 100x100 pixels. You can use many other ImageMagick commands in the same way.

Further Documentation

There is currently no advanced documentation for this plugin.

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